Sample v. Pickard

Plaintiffs sued defendants under the following contract:

“ Memorandum of agreement made this 4th day of May, 1883, between Albert B. TJpton , and Thomas Pickard, constituting the firm of Pickard & Upton, of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, parties of the first part, and Emma E. T. Sample and Henry M. Camp, constituting the firm of Sample & Camp, of Saginaw, Michigan, witnesseth:

“Whereas, said first parties own about four million feet, board measure, of white pine saw-logs, now in Chippewa river and its tributaries, marked 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, E. P. & 14, 5; and whereas, said second parties own a…